Chocolate Café and other news…
Thursday, March 25th, 2010On Sunday, March 28, somewhere between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m., I’ll be reading a short selection from my new YA novel, Boarder Patrol, at Isabella’s Chocolate Café in Oshawa. The reading is part of the second annual Coffee, Tea & Words 24-Hour Read-a-Thon, a fundraiser for the Literacy Council of Durham. I’m part of a group [...]
Book Promotion Contest!
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009My friend and co-author, Cheryl Rainfield, is holding a contest to spread the word about her two upcoming books. You can find the details here, on her web site. She’s offering book store gift certificates and signed copies of all three books in the Dragon Speaker trilogy (embarrassing aside: I still sign my name the [...]
NYC Midnight Short Story Contest: 3rd place
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009This is the second year that I’ve participated in the NYC Midnight Short Story Contest. It’s a great way to get new story ideas. Each participant is assigned a genre and a topic to build their story around. There’s also a fairly tight timeframe, so it encourages “just get it done” writing… which, to be [...]
Short story contest–third place! :)
Monday, March 16th, 2009I entered a YA short story in the WCDR (Writers’ Circle of Durham Region) short story contest, and it won third place! I’m very happy, because I like this story. I’d been working on it for a while, with feedback from my wonderful writing group and from Peter Carver’s class at Mabel’s Fables last spring. [...]